Charles Bauer - Boise, ID

Overview

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • University of Idaho College of Law, Moscow, Idaho, 1979
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Principia College, 1976
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Senior Attorney III

Representative Cases

• Pottenger v Charlton, 172 Idaho 154, 530 P.3d 701 (2023)—examines lower court’s failure to properly account for father’s violation of prior child custody judgment in awarding custody, trial court reversed on direct appeal to the Idaho Supreme Court.
• Swanson v Swanson (not reported) 2021 WL 3235288 (2021)—Trial Court’s division of community property reversed and remanded, attorney fee award vacated.
• Rodriguez v Rodriguez, 150 Idaho 614, 249 P.3d 413 (2011)—First appellate decision to reconsider prior barring modification of custody if a parent violated financial obligations of decree.
• Brownson v Allen, 134 Idaho 60, 995 P.2d 830 (2000) examines the legal standard of substantial and material change required for modification of child custody.
• Mackowiak v Harris, 146 Idaho 864, 204 P.3d 504 (2009) examines whether child support should be reinstated after incarceration of father.
• Lieurance-Ross v Ross, 142 Idaho 536, 129 P.3d 1285 (2006)—trial court’s refusal to allow disabled father to have joint custody reversed; award of attorneys fees against disabled father, also reversed.
• Silsby v Kepner, 140 Idaho 410, 95 P.3d 28 (2004)—Court of Appeals decision reversed by Idaho Supreme Court with clarification of child support guidelines relating to child tax credits, and definition of “clerical error” under the law.

Other Affiliations

• Idaho State Bar Association, 1979
• Washington State Bar Association, 1982